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the observe

PKO4X from Prussia

Hi everybody,

Please find my enamel medals :

First one : MJ3 from Bavaria

Christophe

A focus of the SF3bX

A focus of the EH3bX

What a beauty !!!

the reverse

Hi everybody,

After ribbon bars, now please find my second medal bar. It is from Saxe Coburg Gotha. This medal bar belonged to a Leutnant or an Oberleutnant. Like there is no Ehrenkreuz f?r Frontk?mpfer, I think this officer had been killed during the war. Or if he survived the war he didn't put the 1934 medal. If you have more information about this one. I have bought it from Seymour' collection.

The medal bar : EK2, EH3bX, SF3bX

Hello Chairman,

If you are interrested, I have a bibliography of 22 pages concerning the history of the Freikorps.

I can recommand the following books :

WAITE (Robert), Vanguard of nazism, the history of Freecorps, New-York, Harvard University Press, 1969, 344p.

VENNER (Dominique), Baltikum. Dans le Reich de la d?faite, le combat des corps-francs 1918-1923, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1974, 366p. R??dit? aux ?ditions Pygmalion, 1996, 380p. I think this book has been translated in english

I have made a little work about one unit : Freiwillige Landesj?gerkorps of General Maercker (it is in french).

Let me know if you are interrested by something.

Regards

Christophe

Ralph,

I'm speachless, what a beauty.

Christophe

Thanks Glenn for the info

Christophe

Hi,

Please find my new ribbon bar. Small (only 3 ribbons) but so nice with the Brunswick war serivce ribbon with combattant's clasp

Don't hesitate to share yours

Regards

Christophe

Great Glenn, thanks a lot

I have found his born paper in Eupen'Archiv, now in Belgium. If someone has got more info about this officer, I will be so happy.

Christophe

Not the big, but the only small ribbon bar with 6 ribbons. When I bought this group, following documents are missing : Hohenzollern, Brunswick and both iron crosses, thant's life

I hope to recreate with new ribbons the medal bar. For that, I have to find the BrH3b (may be one day).

Christophe

the small document is 10.5 x 16.5 cm

Christophe

A focus of his medals

Another Kriegsrangliste with handwritten

another page

second part

We can see Jordan's medals and campains

Hi everybody,

I just want to share with one of my Kriegsrangliste of Hauptmann d. R. Otto Jordan.

JORDAN Otto Adalbert Emil was born december, the 2nd 1869 ? Herbesthal near Eupen.

Became volunteer for one year in april, the 14th in IR Nr. 86

15 octobee 1890 Gefreiter.

15 january 1891 devient sous-officier.

29 may1892 Vizefeldwebel.

27 january 1894 second lieutenant.

18 june 1903 first lieutenant.

21 april 1911 captain of reserve.

28 february 1913 end of his service and can wear the uniform of the Landwehr

27 august 1914 call back for duty and was in the R.I.R. 206.

24 mai1915 wounded with the R.I.R. 206.

24 november 1915 became commandant with the official date of 1st june 1915.

from 9 february 1919 till 25 june 1919 with the Freiwillige Landesj?gerkorps.

The RIR 206 belonged to 87th reserve brigade of the 44e reserve division rom XXIIe reserve corps under order of von Falkenhayn from VI Army of General von Quast. At the end of the war, Jordan fought with the Freiwillige Landesj?gerkorps and entered in the Reichswehr.

Otto Jordan received the following medals before and during the war :

DA XX, in 1903

BrH3b, january, the 15th 1914

EK2, october the 28th 1914

EK1, august, the 11th 1915

?M3K, february, the 12th 1916

HH, august, the 31th 1916

HHO3X, july, the 27th 1917

Schwarz VW, august, the 31th 1918

Received the following medals after the war

VK, march, the 20th 1920

MarineKorps Flandern, in 1921

Hungarian medal commemorative for the war, april, the 21th 1931

Ehrenkreuz f?r Frontk?mpfer, january, the 30th 1935

Urkunde Freiwillige Landesj?gerkorps, july, the 1st 1937

Austrian medal commemorative for the war, january, the 4th 1938

Bulgarian medal commemorative for the war, february, the 25 1938

The last shot, the Kragenabzeichen of Freikorps Maercker

Christophe

the biggest document

Hi everybody,

Please find two diploma of Hauptmann d.R a.D Otto Jordan who served in the Freiwillige Landesj?gerkorps Maercker in 1919. It is interreting, because it is the first time we see one diploma and the mini. Have a look.

Any comments are appreciate. If you have got some Freikorps diploma, don't hesitate to share with us.

Christophe

The mini

Hi,

Collecting Imperial ribbon bars since 15 years, I have seen the price grow up so quickly since 5 years. I'm esthonished of the high price we can see on ebay. I have the chance to find in local show some nice ribbon bars to little price (between 20 and 40 euros).

I remember my first ribbon bar I have bought for only 20 DM (see the first photo) and now the price for one ribbon like this is now 300 or 400 euros. Too high for me (see the second ribbon bar bought on ebay -not me).

That's life, everybody want one beautiful ribbon bar an especially one belonged to a Pour le M?rite winner. But like you know only 687 officers during the WW1 received this medal.

Regards

Christophe

Note the hooks on the reverse, this is the first time I see the back of the ribbon bar like this.

Christophe